Build assessments you can really use | Unlock the how, when, what, and why

Watch your system become greater than its parts by building local capacity through common language and deeper knowledge of assessment components. For years, educators have turned to the Hess Cognitive Rigor Matrices (CRM). Now for the first time, the modules are packaged into one resource to help you evaluate the quality and premise of your current assessment system.
Designed as a professional development guide for long-term use by school leaders, five content-rich, topic-based modules:

Offer field-tested, teacher-friendly strategies for local school test development

Can be used for individual or professional development opportunities

Allow for sequential or non-sequential use

Foreword

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

Module 1: Are My Students Thinking Deeply or Just Working Harder? Infusing Rigor Into Instruction and Assessment: Laying the Groundwork for Deeper Learning for All Students

1.1 What Is Cognitive Rigor?

1.2 Developing a Common Understanding of What Cognitive Rigor Is and What It Is Not

Appendix I: An Expanded Glossary for Understanding and Designing Comprehensive Local Assessment Systems

References

Index

"Karin Hess has a gift. She understands the complex and technical world of assessment, but she is able to convey concepts, techniques, and strategies in a way that is clear, practical, and right on target for today’s schools and classrooms. Her central focus on transfer is operationalized in practices that depend upon and promote cognitive rigor, literacy, and student performance. This IS assessment for deeper learning. But her greater gift—and the one offered to teachers and instructional leaders so ably in this invaluable resource—is her richly developed 'toolkit' of professional development modules. Karin Hess not only gives us the why but also the how and the what if around developing great assessment practices.”

Chris Gareis, Professor of Education and co-author of Teacher-Made Assessments: How to Connect Curriculum, Instruction, and Student Learning

College of William and Mary

”Using Karin Hess's tools and protocols ensured that our district curriculum, instruction, and assessments are rigorous and aligned with state standards. By having us focus on cognitive rigor and plan for challenging questions and tasks, we are better equipped to guide our students to challenging and higher cognitive levels. This also allows our students to transfer their thinking to non-routine situations. Thank you for guiding and supporting our vision!”

Marcia Smith, Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning

Springdale School District, Arkansas

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